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The Global AI Race: Why No Country Can Hit the Brakes Alone
A country can regulate what happens inside its borders. It cannot ensure that other countries will exercise the same restraint. An interconnected economy requires new rules and international cooperation.
Previous Automation Pushed Workers Somewhere Else. What If AI Follows Them There?
For generations, displaced workers could move toward work machines could not yet do. AI is now entering cognitive and service work—and software may reach it faster and more cheaply than robots can master the physical world.
In the Sixties, We Knew Automation Could Be a Serious Threat. Now That AI Is Here, Why Aren't We More Prepared?
America was seriously studying technological unemployment in the 1960s. AI makes the underlying risk more plausible today. Has our preparation grown in proportion to the risk?
AI Just Celebrated Its 70th Birthday. So Why Did I Just Find Out About It?
Artificial intelligence looks new because most of us only recently got to use it. The ideas, research, government funding, and technology behind it have been developing for generations.
Why Nobody Will Hit the Brakes on AI
Why companies, investors, workers and countries may keep accelerating AI even when restraint could be rational for society as a whole.
Production Without Consumption
What happens when the economy becomes extraordinarily good at producing goods and delivering services, but increasingly weak at distributing the purchasing power needed to buy them?
The Paradox of Automation
What happens when technology makes the production of goods and delivery of services extraordinarily efficient while also weakening the labor income people use to buy them?
The Missing First Rung: How AI Could Break the Career Pipeline Before Mass Unemployment Arrives
The first major labor effect of AI may not be someone getting fired. It may be someone never getting hired—and the disappearance of the work through which beginners become tomorrow's experts.
Should the Government Have Protected the Luddites? And What Does the Answer Mean for AI?
Government may not need to preserve every obsolete job. But when technological displacement becomes systemic, what responsibility does it have to protect people's livelihoods and ability to transition?
Technology Has Always Replaced Human Labor. So What's Different This Time?
Technology has displaced work for thousands of years. That history matters—but does it guarantee that humans will always find enough new economically valuable work?
AI Is Not the Problem. What We Choose to Do With It Is.
AI can extend human capability and reduce danger. The harder question is what happens when we use the same technology to eliminate livelihoods before deciding what comes next.
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